I recently wanted to solve a problem with using a second monitor from my laptop that is running debian (jessie) but because I lack knowledge things didn't go as planned. Now I am getting booted into ...

I have a Chromebook Pixel 2, which has a HiDPI screen. My external monitor has the same resolution in width, but only about half the pixel density. I use Gnome's scaling settings to make things look ...

I am trying to map a function key combination to an XF86 key symbol. The key combination is Fn+F1, which I was able to use showkey to get the raw keycode for.
jason@io ~ $ showkey
kb mode was RAW
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I would like to display Chinese characters in dwm's status bar. More specifically I would like the symbols to represent the different tags in dwm. Using an online converter, I found that the unicode ...

For some reason, when I try to update to a modern version of Linux from Debian 6.0.7 or Ubuntu 10.0.4, I lose most of the resolutions that were available, including the native resolution of the panel ...

I'm using Parallels for the Mac, but this may be relevant to other VMs too.
Using Ubuntu 14.04, when I login using Unity it resizes the screen and uses all available screens (2 in my case), perfect. ...

I can specify the default font family used to display a particular language in X by editing .fonts.conf in my user directory (or editing the global /etc/fonts/fonts.conf). However, I've not been able ...

I'm new to FreeBSD 9.1 and I wanted to install a desktop GUI environment. I first tried Gnome 2 since I am familiar with it. I appended the following lines to the /etc/rc.conf file:
hald_enable="YES"
...

I installed Arch on my laptop but I don't think this problem is specfic to Arch. The only problem at the moment is that the display connected to the hdmi port isn't detected. For example running from ...

My Fedora 17 installation is no longer booting into X : it finished loading the boot screen, then the cursor turns into an "X", flashes a quickly a few times then the just stalls.
To get X to load, I ...

I recently bought an VGA to HDMI adapter for a HTPC (has a DisplayPort jack instead of HDMI, which got disabled when I put the TV Tuner in - long story - but VGA jack is still functional). I got it ...

I installed Debian wheezy with XFCE 4.8 on my new laptop, updated the kernel to 3.13 from backports.
When I connect the laptop to my monitor, I can see only a part of the screen on the monitor with a ...

Due to some historic reason, I am running Xorg-1.4 with kernel 2.6.32.21 for an old board. On this board, If I start the X then, mouse works very well. But keyboard fails to run. Only "numpad" works ...

I have a Microsoft wireless USB mouse whose scroll wheel seems to have absolutely no acceleration whatsoever on Linux. On Windows and OSX, the faster I scroll, the faster the page scrolls, and vice ...

I've the ATI proprietary drivers. When I power on the computer and I do the login all works well, but when I run xorg I can't change tty or exit from xorg because if I try I see only a black screen ...

I would like to setup the dual monitor settings where I can use two monitors as a
single Desktop with single panel, single launcher and when some programs are maximized then it should span both the ...

I was trying to open a dvi file (from Latex) on one of the virtual terminals. I ran the xdvi command on the file to preview the result and the message: Error: can't open Display comes up.
Is there a ...

The problem:
I run Linux on an arcade machine with a monitor that accepts a 15kHz signal. I can't see anything until the X server starts and a modeline gets the GPU to output the correct signal.
My ...